Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital and its guilty war conscience.
It is a disputed construction site built on the ruins of regimes. Today's diversity - refugees
immigrants arty expats East and West - emerges from a history of violence. Berlin is as
cutting-edge and contemporary as it is wary of its extreme past. Berlin is a comprehensive
short history and portrait of the German capital today. The story of Berlin's vagaries over
nine centuries - from a dry place in a bog to the control centre of modern Europe - is expertly
portrayed by historian Joseph Pearson.
